Baked Fish

Ingredients

• a flat fish
• 1 y2 oz. dripping or butter
• 1 dessert spoonful stale bread crumbs
• 1 teaspoon till chopped parsley
• 1 small onion boiled and chopped
• y2 gill water
• y2 teaspoonful vinegar
• X teaspoonful salt
• % teaspoonful pepper

Method

1. 1

   Melt half of the dripping in a tin baking dish; cut the fins off the fish; clean it; place it in the dish and pour the water and vinegar over it.

2. 2

   Mix the parsley, onion, salt, pepper, and bread crumbs; sprinkle them over the fish; place the dripping in small pieces over the fish; bake in an oven for from ten to twenty minutes, according to the thickness of the fish.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The school cookery book (1881), page 26. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Baked Fish. — Required: a flat fish; 1 y2 oz. drip- ping or butter ; 1 dessert spoonful stale bread crumbs; 1 teaspoon till chopped parsley ; 1 small onion boiled and chopped ; y2 gill water ; y2 teaspoonful vinegar ; X teaspoonful salt ; % teaspoonful pepper

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